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@roweerin’s other ½ ❤️ | Dad 👨‍👩‍👧 | Enthusiast 🚵🏼‍♂️🏂🥾🚗🌷🍽 🍺🎨🎸🎹🛠 | Terminal blood cancer fighter | Before I die I’ll live forever 🔥

Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Joined February 2008
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Wednesday’s at the hospital are dog days, this huge good boy is Dave. His head is massive, and so is his heart 😭❤️
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About that PET scan I did on Monday: it came back looking bad, lots of activity, new lesions and growth 😩 My oncologist decided that it would be best to do a new biopsy of a lymph node to get an updated picture of my cancer. With that info we can decide what to do next 👍🏼 – at Hamilton, Ontario
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I might be experiencing the effects of the CAR-T therapy still, the lesions could actually be clusters of T-cells. I may also have a different cancer that spawned the B-cell lymphoma. My cancer may have evolved and shed its CD19 surface proteins rendering CAR-T ineffective – at Hamilton, Ontario
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Whatever the case, the biopsy and analysis of the lymph node should cast a lot of light on what is actually going on. In the meantime I’m super tired (expected) and feeling decent most of the time. So I’m just going to keep doing and enjoying what I can ❤️ – at Hamilton, Ontario
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Getting a PET/CT bright and early in Buffalo on Monday morning. This will let the doctors see if my lesions and tumors have grown/shrunk/disappeared and how metabolically active they are 🤞🏼 #dlbcl #cart #immunotherapy
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My cat keeps knocking my phone off of the wireless charger every night, and now even during the day... cats, man 😼
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Immunotherapy update: It’s been a rough ride. I had GDP chemo (a strong one) on Jan 17th. It took until yesterday for my bone marrow to become active enough that my team was comfortable admitting me for treatment. My body is getting tired, it’s not recovering like it once did.
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I’ll be admitted tomorrow (Feb 8) and begin 3 days of conditioning chemo followed by two days of rest. Then it’s day zero, I will receive my CAR-T cells and hope for the best 🙏🏼
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I haven’t been able to do much, but I look forward to exploring Buffalo as soon as I’m able. @RoswellPark continues to provide a fantastic level of care and support. To my friends, family, coworkers and community: thank you for your continued support and generosity ❤️
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Frig, having some hardcore mialgia after this last round of GDP salvage chemo. Basically it’s inescapable extreme muscle pain/ache. It will go away on its own over the next few days, but it’s intense 🙏🏼 Worth it though!
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🙏🏼 maybe can I get an encore for “cbd oil won’t cure refractory blood cancer”?
Hi! I'm an oncologist. You might know me from my greatest hits including "no, I don't recommend alkaline water as your body is remarkably homeostatic and maintains your pH balance", "anaerobic glycolysis means cancer can make its own sugar", and "no, I'm not hiding the cure"
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💯 every damn time
A lot of programmers make the mistake of thinking the way you make code flexible is by predicting as many future uses as possible, but this paradoxically leads to *less* flexible code. The only way to achieve flexibility is to make things as simple and easy to change as you can.
LOL there's no fucking migrant caravan! Never was, never will be! Also Mr. Space Force, you have one of the biggest militaries on Earth, no? What the shit are you scared of!? Good riddance to this bullshit rhetoric nonsense! Fuck sake.
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Y’all ever get tired up on those high horses all the time, swinging swords fending off all that perceived mediocrity? Seems tiring and unnecessary. There are real battles to be had
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TFW you do someone (a very good person btw) a favor and it takes their “very professional suit-wearing internet man” multiple days of hand holding and ego stroking to change the name servers on a domain 🤦🏼‍♂️
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